Every August planet Earth cuts through the so-called “river of rubble” left behind along the orbit of Comet Swift-Tuttle—which last visited the inner solar system in 1992—treating us to one of the flashiest meteor showers of the year, the Perseids.

The Expedition Report podcast series offers an insider’s look at what it’s like to live and work in the field. In this edition, Assistant Curator Estefanía Rodríguez travels to Antarctica to study sea anemones on a ship that serves as a floating field station – and, on which, sometimes getting there is half the adventure.

Laura Watson Benedict (1861–1932) the first anthropologist to travel to the Philippines in 1906 to study the Bagobo people brought back the hornbill spoon, now on display in The Power of Poison exhibition.